Linda Cardinal
Chercheur

Biography

Linda Cardinal is a professor at the School of Political Studies and holds the Research Chair in Francophonie and Public Policy at the University of Ottawa. His teachings mainly focus on linguistic minorities and language policies, the relationship between language and politics, identity issues, constitutional politics, political ideas in Canada and Quebec, citizenship, and identity. She has published or directed numerous works on these issues, including Quebec and Ireland. Culture, history, and identity in the North in 2014.

From 2002 to 2004, she held the Craig Dobbin Chair in Canadian Studies at University College Dublin (Ireland). From 2006 to 2007, she held the Chair in Canadian Studies at Université Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. Since 2009, she has directed the SSHRC-funded Alliance de recherche sur les savoirs de la gouvernance communautaire au sein de la francophonie canadienne. In 2013, she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. In 2014, she was named Chevalière dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques de la République française.

Research interests

• Language and politics
• Comparative analysis of language policies and linguistic regimes
• The political life of francophonies outside Quebec 
• Debates on identity
• Citizenship
• Institutions and political representation in Canada and Quebec Constitutional politics in Canada and Quebec 
• The relationship between law,
• History and politics
• Theories of collective action and social movements debates on modernity and identity in Quebec, Ireland and the UK
• The history of ideas in Quebec and French Canada